Axalta celebrated the official opening of its global innovation centre, the largest coatings research and development (R&D) centre in the world. The 16,000sqm global innovation centre offers specialty labs, as well as office space. Its location in Philadelphia’s historic Navy Yard enables collaboration among Axalta employees, business partners, and customers throughout the Philadelphia area and [...]

France’s Renault has announced its plans to build new Nissan and Mitsubishi vans at its domestic plants, according to Reuters. Renault’s new strategy plans to help raise investment in France as it discovers closer incorporation of the three-way carmaking union with government backing. The local plant in Maubeuge will build a new Nissan NV250. Also, [...]

Tesla has announced that Robyn Denholm, Australian finance chief of Telstra, has been appointed the company’s new board chair. According to the BBC, the appointment comes after Elon Musk stepped down from the position of chair in October 2018, to resolute US financial regulator’s claims of fraud. The employment of a new chairman is just [...]

In Lisbon, Portugal, Volkswagen inaugurated the Software Development Centre Lisbon (SDC Lisbon) in the presence of the president of the Portuguese republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. In Lisbon, 300 IT specialists are to develop software mainly for the digital ecosystems and internal corporate processes of VW. 100 of these specialists are to work on cloud-based [...]